OUT OF THE SHADOWS

Posted on 2020-09-21

Inspired by the last three decades of China’s dynamic development, Out of the Shadows: Contemporary Chinese Photography features Chinese artists who question traditional aesthetics, local and global histories, and the photographic medium. Each featured artist has found his/her artistic voice by not only questioning traditional Chinese aesthetics but also challenging conventional expressions of the photographic medium.

The show’s selected contemporary Chinese artists, many of whom have never been exhibited in an American museum before, all continue to push the boundaries of photographic art with new technologies and innovative perspectives.

Opposite – Hong Lei, Memory of Pomegranate, 2005

Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2021

Museum of Photographic Arts – MOPA
1649 El Prado
San Diego
CA 92112

mopa.org

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PAUL SMITH

Posted on 2020-09-21

Smith curated several exhibitions at ABC No Rio and NYC nightclubs, including works by then unknown artists such as Andres Serrano and Zoe Leonard alongside early works by Richard Prince, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, etc. Friendship with David Wojnarowicz led to a role in Rosa von Praunheim’s film “Silence Equals Death” 1990, and in several Wojnarowicz photographs. A 1991 Fullbright fellowship in India led to friendships with and writings on Indian artists including Raghubir Singh, Bhupen Khakhar and Vivan Sunderam, a solo exhibition and workshop at the National Centre for Photography, Mumbai, and a project with SAHMAT at Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Rhabindra Bhavan, New Delhi. In 1994 he showed Guatemalan paintings at galleries in Guatemala City, Antigua, and Panajachel–where he continues to work several months most years. His use of wide-angled, curvilinear picture planes led to participation in a widely travelled Hudson River Museum show, “The World is Round” curated by Marcia Clark, and discussion in the forward to a translation of the seminal book CURVILINEAR PERSPECTIVE (Flocon & Barre). From 2008 to 2016 he participated in the Brucennial exhibitions and Free University of the Bruce High Quality Foundation, which he chronicled in a 2-part feature article in Art In America.

Opposite – 57th and 3rd, 1986

Exhibition runs November 12th through to December 19th, 2020

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
508 – 526 West 26th Street
New York
NY 10001

www.danielcooneyfineart.com

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BEING SEEN

Posted on 2020-09-21

Curated from The Ringling’s photography collection, this exhibition features works by photographers who examine the complexities of identity and the staging of selfhood. Consisting primarily of self-portraits and portraits of empowered subjects, these works explore personal agency at the intersection of politics and the female body. Many of the artists in the exhibition are recognized as leading voices in contemporary art and offer diverse perspectives on issues surrounding power, sexuality, and self-representation. Each photograph presents a unique invitation to renew the dialogue on the authority of the gaze in the twentieth-first century.

Opposite – Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972), Misiwe IV, Bijlmer, Amsterdam

Exhibition runs through to January 3rd, 2021

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bayshore Road
Saratoga
FL 34243

www.ringling.org

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PETER YDEEN – EASTON NIGHTS

Posted on 2020-09-14

Easton Nights is a story about small town America as told by Peter Ydeen’s night time photographs. The Lehigh Valley, where Easton lies, has close to a million people. There is no downtown, but instead a sea of small towns which have grown together. It has its own personality, serving as a living museum of small town Americana.

Exhibition runs through to October 15th, 2020

Sykes Gallery, Millersville University
46 E. Frederick Street
Millersville, PA

www.millersville.edu

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EARLIE HUDNALL, JR. – PAST & PRESENT

Posted on 2020-09-14

Earlie Hudnall, Houston’s beloved documentarian of the 3rd and 4th Wards, has also had multiple exposures in recent art exhibitions, including the MFA Houston’s very timely exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. In addition, a solo exhibition at the Houston City Hall features many of Hudnall’s images from the 4th Ward, the historic neighborhood west of Downtown with roots that trace back to Freedmen’s Town, settled by freed slaves.

Opposite – June 19, 1987

Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2020

PDNB
154 Glass St. #104
Dallas
TX 75207

www.pdnbgallery.com

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ENVIRONMENTAL DIVERSITY – THE WORLD THROUGH A LENS

Posted on 2020-09-14

Throughout the history of photography, artists have depicted and explored the vast qualities of nature, building a pictorial legacy that generated profound effects on the viewer’s senses and our collective understanding of the world. The intrinsic enchantment and harshness of the natural environment, coupled with the photographer’s poetic undertaking of revealing the observed physical earth and its arresting beauty, created the grounds for a photographic subject that would ultimately showcase the myriad dimensions of earth’s landscapes.

These photographers could capture exquisite moments of awe in many diverse arenas, connecting the viewer’s inner nature to the world’s grand vastness. They could draw out mysteries in nature, to create plots and narratives beneath a cape of rich tones and contrasting values. These photographers could abstract the real world into sensuous forms or studies of color, reimagining the medium’s possibilities, capturing surrounding nature in two dimensions. Picturing the sea, sky, and land, these contemporary and classic photographs use the environment as a continuous subject to explore the ever-changing earth.

Opposite – Garrapata Beach, 1954

Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2020

Holden Luntz Gallery
332 Worth Avenue
Palm Beach
FL 33480

holdenluntz.com

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